Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 101
Why, you must turn grinder like myself,’ said the other; ‘you only want a grindstone; the rest will come of itself.
Who acts: you, other, rest · What happens: turn, say, want, come · To what, where: grinder, grindstone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, other, rest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 turn | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | aux |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | grinder | grinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 myself | case |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 turn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 want | nsubj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 want | advmod |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 grindstone | det |
| 20 | grindstone | grindstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 want | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 itself | case |
| 27 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 come | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | must | you | grinder | like myself | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grinder=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want | present | you | a grindstone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grindstone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | future | the rest | of rest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of itself=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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